Edward Simon with Afi nidad & Imani Winds: Sorrows & Triumphs

Jeff Scott | Mark Dover | Toyin Spellman-Diaz | Rogerio Boccato | Adam Rogers | Monica Ellis | David Binney | Brian Blade | Valerie Coleman | Scott Colley

Venezuela-born, US-based pianist-composer Edward Simon is, according to JazzTimes, “less talked about than many other important jazz pianists from the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2018

Theo Hill: Interstellar Adventures

This NY-based pianist-composer leads a soulful contemporary post-bop trio featuring Rashaan Carter and Rudy Royston who do a great job...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Various Artists: Best of British Dance Bands

Put together by the late John Wadley, this is a compendium of pre-war UK dance bands, from (alphabetically) Ambrose to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Dudley Moore Trio: Authentic Dud Vol 2

This is a re-reissue of one of Harkit's most popular earlier trawls into the archive and presents Moore's classic 1960s...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Various Artists: Now That's What I Call Jazz

A hotch-potch album that dips randomly into the jazz catalogue and puts classics by Ella and Louis, Coltrane and Chet...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Adelbert Tóth: Pronouncements 1992

Adelbert Tóth

Before each concert the Hungarian-American keyboardist Adelbert ‘The Behemoth’ Tóth was fond of reciting these ringing words from the Book...

Reviewed by Art Slezak in issue: September/2018

Mark Wingfield: Tales From A Dreaming City

Dominque Vantomme | Asaf Sirkis | Yaron Stavi | Mark Wingfield

As if two 2017 releases weren't enough, Tales From A Dreaming City actually builds on his 2016 release Proof Of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2018

Aaron Shragge and Ben Monder: A World Of Dew

Ben Monder | Aaron Shragge

With the trio an increasingly desirable, and financially viable, option for many musicians, the constraints of a duo can pose...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: September/2018

Manfred Mann: Soul of Mann

Agreeable, swinging set of Hammondled jazz and R&B instrumentals from the 1966 Mann line-up, including trumpeter Henry Lowther, Lyn Dobson...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018

Ryo Fukui: Mellow Dream

A second album (from 1977) by the stellar Japanese pianist whose forte is again ballads, including a luscious ‘My Foolish...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2018